In Endgame,, South African men risk ostracism, or even death, by engaging in secret talks to end apartheid. And the result was a peaceful resolution few inside or outside of South Africa would have predicted.

CBS offers its annual airing of The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, tonight, 9 ET/PT), the only awards show where you can be certain the honorees are deserving. This year's stellar assortment: Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and Barbra Streisand. Caroline Kennedy hosts the program, which includes salutes and performances by Beyonc, Garth Brooks, Glenn Close, Clint Eastwood, Alan Jackson, B.B. King, Idina Menzel, Queen Latifah, Joss Stone, Rob Thomas, Randy Travis and Denzel Washington. Great moments abound, but the highlights are American Ballet Theater dancers Marcelo Gomes and Luciana Paris performing Tharp's Sinatra Suite, Bettye LaVette's rousing version of The Who's Love Reign O'er Me, and in an entertaining change of career pace Ne-Yo, dancing and singing to Streisand's old arrangement of Lover, Come Back to Me. All told, a reminder of the highest form of fun variety TV used to offer.

What could be better than getting a music award? Getting it in Monte Carlo, which is where the stars traveled for the 2008 World Music Awards (MyNet, tonight, 8 ET/PT). Beyonc, Mariah Carey and Ne-Yo are among those expected to perform on the show, which will include an appearance by the winners of the Legend Award, Earth, Wind and Fire.

Life on Mars will find new life behind Lost . Eleventh Hour is expected to get an eleventh-hour extension. But despite a last-minute appeal by star Brooke Shields, Lipstick Jungle will be smeared from NBC's lineup. ABC's Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone are goners. And Pushing Daisies is, well, pushing daisies.

Have you been longing to know more about the mysterious Miss Thirteen? Here's your chance, as the latest patient on House (Fox, tonight, 8 ET/PT) turns out to be Thirteen's latest love interest which naturally causes House to declare open season on his secretive employee's private life.